How many hours a week do the parents of poor children work on average, according to the census bureau in USA?

Answer 1

I find it repulsive that so many Americans automatically assume that you don't work if you're poor.
According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the poverty level for a family of four is $20,000. There are approximately 3.5 - 4.5 million people living at - or below - the poverty level at any given time in this nation.
I worked at USA TODAY in Washington, DC for almost 8 years, and saw many, many poor people living in cardboard boxes within a block or two of the White House. BOTH parents worked; their children were enrolled in school. But these people, working a minimum wage jobs, were unable to scrape together enought money for a deposit and first month's rent demanded by a slumlord for a rat-infested apartment.
Arrogance, gluttony, avarice, and hubris has set in; it's an aberration that millions of poor children go to bed hungry every night while millions of rich people pig out on $100 sushi dinners at five-star restaurants.
It's immoral that CEOs of corporations earn 600 - 800 times what they pay their average employee.
It's a moral indignity that a McDonald's franchisee can pay a half-a-million dollars for a store, and then claim he can't pay his employees more than $6 - $8 an hour.
Our society is selfish, greedy, indignant, pompous, and incredibly self-absorbed when they find it 'acceptable' that there is no need to help those in this country who are sick, unemployed, underprivileged, disadvantaged, hungry, aging, poor, under-educated, or disabled. This "All for One....ME" attitude has to stop.
To all you who earn $25 an hour, $400,000 a year, or a million dollars (and more), I would respectfully advise, "There but for the grace of God go YOU."
It amazes me how people will credit their own success to hard work, perserverance, ambition, self-motivation and personal determination. Yet, if they suffer any kind of financial setback, they attribute that to "bad luck".
It amazes me how people will denounce 'welfare mothers', the working poor, and the unemployed as lazy, stupid, and unmotivated. Yet if any of those unfortunate people suddenly have a turn of good fortune, they "got lucky".
I've personally met homeless men with stronger I.Q.s than George W. Bush; they simply didn't have the good fortune to be born into a wealthy, aristocratic political dynasty and had everything handed to them.
It amazes me how well-to-do people believe they're 'entitled' to Social Security even though they don't need it; but they decry 'entitlements' given to the truly needy. They oppose welfare for the poor, but don't oppose corporate welfare or individual tax advantages for the wealthy.
Even the 'dregs of our society' deserve a modicum of respect and dignity. There, but for the grace of God, go YOU and me. Don't think for a moment that you might end up living in a cardboard box some day. Those stock portfolios, BMWs, luxury homes, country club memberships and lavish vacations could all disappear as quickly as they arrived. -RKO- 10/21/07

Answer 2

For some 0 for others 60 to 70.

Answer 3

Which level of poor are you referring to?

Lets say $24,000 per year. That's generally a single parent working a single job for 40 hours per week.

If they make less than that then they are either high school dropouts that work at McDonald's or they work less than 40 hours per week.

If they make more than that they are generally either skilled workers. They are working two jobs or the other parent is working part time.

There is an entire range of possibilities.

Answer 4

A. Those are Ethiopians. B. Egyptians are considered Caucasian, NOT white. Huge difference. White is only for those in Europe. While Caucasian includes Europe, Middle East, South Asia, North Africa, Norteast Africa. Race has nothing to do with skin color. Italians are considered white and the southern ones look middle eastern.

Answer 5

I'm guessing 0?? I mean poor is a relative term and their are not very many poor people left in the USA!

Answer 6

88

Answer 7

You are a Socialist if you think that rich people are not entitled to Social Security when some have paid in to the system for 50 years. Social Security is for everyone that paid into it. There is no means testing for it.

Answer 8

I would guess the parents don't work enough or the kids would not be poor.

Answer 9

2.5 hours per week.

If you include grocery shopping as work.